-
.
-
When I tell people I’m a missionary,
I get all kinds of questions.
-
People ask,
“What kind of missionary are you?”
-
Or they want to know exactly
what it is a missionary does.
-
Or a lot of times,
people will say, “A missionary?
-
Here? You mean, that’s really a thing?”
-
Well, there’s 281-million lost people
in the U-S and Canada.
-
So yeah. It’s a thing.
-
But there’s one question
no one’s ever asked me.
-
And I wish they would.
-
No one’s ever asked,
“Where’s the finish line?”
-
That’s the question I want to hear:
-
“What does ‘mission accomplished’
look like?”
-
You can watch videos
about North American missionaries like me.
-
You can read stories about us.
And you can pray for us.
-
But don’t get so caught up in the methods
and minutiae of what we do
-
that you miss the main thing.
-
Everything you see and hear
and read about us
-
is really just a means to an end.
-
We start churches to make Jesus known.
-
We meet needs to make Jesus known.
-
We move to unfamiliar places,
we meet unreached people,
-
and we attempt unrealistic things…
just to make Jesus known.
-
There’s nothing more important than that.
-
Nada.
-
Nothing at all.
-
Jesus said, “Go into all the world
-
and proclaim the gospel
to the whole creation.”
-
And so
that’s what our finish line looks like.
-
It looks like obedience.
Same as your finish line.
-
God speaks.
You give. We go.
-
Everything starts with your gifts
to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.
-
Those gifts enable us to go to places
where the gospel’s never been.
-
And this is
where we cross our finish line.
-
This is where, together,
we make Jesus known.
